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With a gazillion different sippy cups on the market, finding the right sippy for your baby is a daunting task. We will focus on buying considerations and share our top 5 picks.

Things to consider when purchasing a sippy cup:

What material is the sippy cup made of? Choices will include, plastic, glass, stainless steel, silicone and biopolymer. Biopolymer is an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic made from items such as corn or rice husks. Plastic has its place but we try to avoid having plastic touch our babies food and drink. Plastic leaches chemicals (you may have heard of BPA/BPS). We are still discovering the nasty ill effects that chemicals in plastics (for that matter chemicals in general) have on our health. While it is difficult to find sippys and bottles that work well with zero plastic components the key is limiting the amount of plastic that touches your childs food and drink.

Soft or hard spout cup? Soft spout sippy cups usually make for an easier transition from bottle or breast. Soft spout sippy cups have a silicone nipple that is shaped like a sippy spout instead of a teat. Hard spout sippy cups are more durable and sometimes come with a flip top or easy to close option.

Handles or No Handles?Babies love to grip things and sippy cups designed with handles are perfect for babies little hands. Many brands have handles that can easily be removed so that your baby can use the cup with or without handles.

Easy to Clean? You probablyhave seen the gross photos in the news or social media showing bacteria and mold growth on the inside valve area of certain brands of sippy cups. We suggest looking for sippy cups with a simple design that are easy to take apart, wash and reassemble.

Should the sippy cup be leakproof?In a perfect world every sippy cup would be 100% leak proof and spill proof, making our lives as parents just a little easier. Here is the thing, all sippys will leak a little. Actually you would not want a sippy that your baby has to suck on with all their might. Cups that are overly difficult to suck from can lead to developmental problems and ear infections due to the softness of babies palettes.

TOP 5 Not Plastic Sippy Cups

The Munch Eco Hero cup is made from rice husks! This zero plastic cup is super cute, light weight and the red lid is made from 100% silicone. The spout is soft and the cup is easy to clean with just the cup and lid components. The cup has one handle – we wish it had a two – but still a top pick!

The Green Sprouts Sip and Straw Glass Cup comes with both a silicone straw insert and a silicone sippy spout. The cup is a glass insert that fits into a hard plastic shell which helps prevent breakage. It also comes with handles, that can easily be removed. This cup is small and only holds 4oz. but is easy to clean and a favorite among moms.

The Thermos Foogo Sippy is incredibly popular. It is double walled 18/8 stainless steel for insulation and has a semi soft sippy spout. The base of the cup is nice and wide, holds 7oz. of liquid, and is top rack dishwasher safe. There is a removable insert where the valve is that must be removed for proper cleaning.

These glass sippys are similar in style to the Green Sprouts Sip and Straw. This set is interchangeable and includes one sippy spout as well as bottle nipples, but you can purchase more spouts from GoGlass or use other wide mouth spouts such as Thinkbaby sippy spouts.

Thinkbaby is known for their high quality products. We like this cup because it is 18/8 stainless steel (non-insulated), lightweight, has handles and also includes measurement markings on the side of the cup. This cup holds 9oz. of liquids.

The next best thing to a glass sippy cup, Silikids most recent product is the Siliskin Glass Cup. This little 6oz tumbler is the perfect transitional tool from a regular sippy cup to a normal cup. The glass cup is a great size and the 100% food grade silicone cover makes the cup less likely to break and, provides a better grip for little hands.

We’re frequently asked why nobody makes a glass sippy cup and the answer is that very young toddlers like throwing things, especially when those things make a loud crashing noise on impact, creating an obvious safety issue. But once kids get old enough to consider drinking from a real cup they’re usually past the tossing-things-for-fun stage making the Silikids glass a nice alternative to standard glass cups.

Our daughter who is a rather opinionated 4 year old liked the colors, aqua and lime, and thought that the holes on the silicone sleeve where cool. She also liked that she was drinking from a big girl glass cup.

Of course, there will be spills and more messes to clean up than a regular sippy cup, but the comfort that I have knowing my child is drinking from a glass cup free of BPA and other chemicals, instead of plastic, makes that worth the while.

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